Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 19, 1881, Page 12

12 HE HOME. Another Meeting of the Somes what Famous Grumpy Club. The Btory of How Grace Was Woaoed Told in Widely Different Ways. Shakspoare’s Works Admirlugly Considereil by n Person from Michigan. A Warm Dofoase of 014 Bachelors, nud n Rocitation of Their Many Virtuos, Anoflier New Eugland Story in Rhyms- Dy Our Own and Only West Slde Poct. Somo Ablo Thoughls Concerning the Ultimate Triumph of the Right, Eto., Ela. TIIE FLOWIER-GIRL, For The Chlcago Tribuns. A pale, shrunken face, A lustreless eyes A valn, plending glance At all pssers-by. A wealc, wery volee, ‘ eard "midst tho din, In nceents despnlring, A Kkind beart to win. A blnek, fireless grato, A cold, shiv'ring forms Bowai deep fn dejeetlon, Unheeding tha storm! A wenk, trembling moann, " A huartvending sigh— A longing for samething "To como from on high, A face enlm ne sleeping, A henrt free fromearos A soul tint no lungor Need bow In despalvl Tho bleak winds may whistlo U'er sew and on saorod © Dutyan sleeping mortal ¢ Will beed-tuem no morel A look of confesslon, " .« A kit word or twas A wond'viug shy duath Livr youuy Hie should woo, A cluster of rodns, L A prayer kindly'snld, Her tuture's In ilenyon— Tho present 18 doad, Cmcaqo, Feb. Louts Il MANBBACH, TIIE GRUMPY CLUB. TOW GRACE WAS WON. o the Edltor of The Chicago Tribune. Drearun, I, Feb, Ho—~Every member of the Grumpy Club was on Wt acenrding to promise,—seven fnembers, cach with a small roll of manuseript. There were sundry winks and nods exchangzed, but mtil the “meeting was ealled to onder every member was s stlent as an owl at midday, “The meeting witl please come to order,” sald the President, * You are all aware, zentlemen, what l3-expeeted of each mem- aer this evenine, 1 hope you' have nll come prepnred, Without nuy furthor remarks al- Jow me to extend to Mr, Whimbeo the honor of belng tho fivst member called upon for his | effort. Gentlemen, Mr. Whimbee.”? Mr, Whimbeo eame forward In a most con- Ncdent manner, just as though his whole,lifa lind been gaven up to such efforts. Wo nd- mired his coolness upon such nn_oceaston, and felt happy to think that Whinbee nppre- ciaunl thie honor., . “Gentlemen,” snid Whimbee, “I have seleeted that part of the outline which T pre- sume some of ye have not dayed to np- proneh, I hav we Lo that part whers the hero deelares bils love mud 1s weeepted,” Every uember but Whinibee appenved to be thunderstrucle; bitt Whimbee dil not no- tice it, ns lie was Intent on reading his pa- hich ran as follows: “\What'n great nmount of bread we eat,” soliloquized Graee, ns she drow out the three large loaves from the oven amd gave them sunidry tans on the erust with her thimbled finger, There, I have mude six loaves to- duy, and In two duys the same number will have to replace them; but pa thinks no ono can mitko brewd Hike me, and just think of Richard complimenting me on being sueh n splendkd cooke; It really mado mo laugh,” aud, setling up the loaves on the side- DLonrd to coul, she took n hasty glanee argund the Kitehen to sen that all was suug for the night, and thon with- drew to the cozy llttle sitting-roow off the partor, whare, resuming her sowing, she soon hecame conselous of her loneliness in splte of the happy thoughts that were trying to keep her company. In o fow wo- ments o famillar ring ot the door—an ex- peeted one—wrenthed hier faco in an smlle that brought the dimplcs to the surface, Taking & hasty peep n the glass Lo sdjust o ribbon at her throntshe opened the door, and nowonent Jater necompnnied Rlehard nto the room. * Yaou're looking charmingto-night, Grace, ond exceedingty weil.” s M 'uxlnle' have no causo for caml»lnlut. Rickard, and you den't appear us though you wore suiforing.” X0t wnless 1013 for your company,” sail icharl, *“Not o very troublesome disease, 1 ain sure,)’ sald Grace, offering him o chair and tnkimr up her work, *Thery you po! Grace—stltch, stitch, stich, l-'oruu;nll sake drop that needle foran hau : ST , atl the sewing I do’In your compiny would hnrdly be eulled o be- ou st surely inve something of g great Iimportance to convey, or s songe thing oceurred to-tay which has disturbed your cquaninity 9" * Nothlug of “the kiud, Graeoe; but every evening thit Pve ealled on you for the lust v Yuu busy with your needlo or sometiung else, althoush Pl nodity that perhaps ten out he whule nunsher of ealdd vou have hon- 1 e ll‘l) |‘n,1'\ulluh|z selt-donlnl, It sueh iy ealled, hen thut would bo about twenty times you huve culled; Is that nbout the right num- m{m-rtlnn by ndmltthiye that o twenty thines ho fuct 15 1've elf that L am w bore,” hard; you know you 0| *Twenty times! Ten times wauld ho nearer the m ‘Th nearly persnaded “hm't that, are always weleome,” * Lxeusa me, Grace, perhaps I'm selfish; but I believe, trom what I have observed In the ma lurnf’m-whm in your eompany, 1 am convineed that in theory™ [ ennlil by tatlor, though practieally I don’t belleve 1 contd OW 011 o button I i proper munner.” “1 thinky if 1 was w bashelor I'd bo ashumed (o admit that £ could not sowon a button,” sald Graeo without quklmi up, and feelig somewhut confused at her own ) was silence for n fow moments, auite closy to Grace nnd 1o break co Blehned said, *Am 1 really o weey il e felt about ns bad ay _ atled Dl thief, “Suppose you were, you would net be connnlitting w crime, Howover, 1 think you have o fow yeurs of grace ore you bezonie n full-fledged ons sald Grace, wishing he'd L\I‘{?J the subjret. No so thought Richard, Il eoncluded to follow up the advantago she hud uncons sefously glven biny" it ever Lum a buehelor, Grace, you'll be responstble for it.” “You'ro surely drenintng,” sald Grace, try- Ing tathread her needle, Y1 could never acconnnodate myself to such u burden,” < Phen therslsonly one way to rellova yourselt of thut responslblilty, und that is by consenting to bo my wife,” “‘duc{mrdl do you know what you are msking “Ob, Gracel” and he caught her in his arms, *“Only bo mine; und withholdnot from e that word which even in its littleness will 1end to tunke us great to each other, 'T'v Jue, Grace, that my love anddevotion to you by tobe mademore enduring by your nccept. wnee of 8, Byeuk; Grace, for Lluugt know wy fute,” . . / / THE CHICAGO TRIBUN. ¢ SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1Y, 1881—SIXTEEN PAGES And the face that ho lo down tpon with its tearful eyes emphusized the words et Hps uttered: 2 SO, Riehard, how happy Tam ! To bo yours, {\- e loved (u’ you, hag been my fondes hape, *Phese are preclous words to me, (iraco, and ay I always bo worthy of tham1" A fow moments after Mr. and Mrs, Rich- mond returned from a triondly visit, Mr, Riehmond did not observe elusely the a peatance of the young people, but Mrs, Rich- fmomd saw In i mowent thng smmythh\fu - usunl had taken place, At the most favor- able momient Riehard made known the event of the evenlng, und If & father and mother ever wera prowd it was when Mr, ad Mrs, Rielunpnd congratulated Richard and Graeo ol steh un outcome of & long and fayvorablo neatnlntance, Mr. Wiimbee =at down, and, as nll the rest had lield thelr breath during the reading of tho paper, at ita finish there wns um!:’ln" mendons” sigh that was elenrly autlble thnoughynt tho ranm. BucksYhought Whimbee's effort at iiling I was very ereditable to that gentleman, but lo would not say nny mors at present, as it was nuraust tho rules to eriticlss untilall the efforts wern In, “Lwill, therefore, request Mr, Tilkins to favor us with tho rearling of his effort nt fifl- ng I, Gentlemen, Mr. Pilklng,” Pliklng _nroge, feellng somewhnt embars rassed, Tlo ndjusted by glusses soveral times on his nose In order that he might ap- pear 1t easo whoen e cammenced, **Gentlenen,” said Pitkins, * 1, too, have been filllng [y, and the part of thoe outline which hins attieted iny aitention Is the swme 35 th{u :v‘l'ulch Whimbee has so gullantly In- oretd at, Al this confession Whimbeo suiled, whils thio otlier five members that still remalned i their sonts assimed o look of blank astonish- ment. However, we nll held our breath as mitch ns possible, while T'ilking contltned rending: ** I plend not guilty ta such sentimentatism as matks the effusion of the preceding spenk- er, L lave pletured Richned s o lover of selenea us well a8 of Grace, nad ho tinds in Graee i apt puptl in thut she 18 greatly Ine sted i selentifie aflalrs,” How beautlrul the stavs look to-night!?? sald Orace, 08 she nnd Richard sut on the vluzza enjoying eneh other’s company. o5, tho peeuliar condition ot the atmos. y il the absenve of lurge mnsses of flonting motsture, pernlts the hunlnons ob- Jueets of the heavens to shine forth more re- splendant than I those conditions didnot ex- ist,” sakd Richarvd, notine the wondrous [ook 1 'the eyes of Iils fale companion, “ And the Great Dipper seems to be upside down,” contimied Grace, ** Yoy, 1t hies tho appearnnee of an luverted utensil of that deseription, and, invulgarpar- lance, * it won't liold water,”?* L Al when it 1s Inverted and won't hold water, is that o slen that ic 1s golng to rain 9 Girace, eager 1o obtain all the seien- pwvledize possible. It has no more to do with glving or with- ]Il:ltlll?{ ratn than the pole star hasto do with thoe eronking of frogs.” 0 Please show me the pole star, 1'vo for- gotten exactly where it 1s,” *Phero It 13, saud Riehard, pol\ltlng.'hls finger in the direction of thoe stary and Grac fo make supe, rested her head on his breasy and it her ey alone his finer and then oft Into gpace, aud by dint of twisting he tla Bl tnto ditferent pusitions sho suceceded Eu findimg ie, ** How strangs it never moves away from that spotI'? sald Grace, 2 ST didn't vemadn there,” salid Rienard, oty valne ng astur would bo very fnsignitl- eant. T the sublor it wonlit be n nere wiil- o*-the-wisp undun enemy, Instendot a friend and guide,”” 9 “ A the Plelades,” continued Grace, * do yuu;g'nuw what has becomo of the missig one? * We have no nuthontle account of its dis- appearine 3 uot the Bibla speak of it 2 and 80 dues Mr, Proctor,” Issing ik you were spenking vening have anything to do e Pleldes 27 ask * No connection wi 51 sald “ The missiing link L referred to that evenlng fins veference to n supposed order of anlinaly which buir i elose resemblunee to min, wid of which man 1s one” higher remove, You must know, Gmee, that selence looks upon sl 11te that exists a8 having cmnnuted from onu onginel zerm which has branched out Into numberless \\-n?'s, develoning and repro- ductng its owny Kind, and evolving In duo course of thne Mghor orders of 11Te, and this developing und evolving has been golng on for countless nies, and the greatest tllhu(; P evolved so far 1s man, 'The nearest typo of man In the nferior anlinals Is w1 speeies of ape, but the difterenco between the highest elnss of npes nnd mnan is so fnconsistent with tho fdew that man s bot one remove higher that It gs Jed to u pronounced conviction that betoro the principlo of evelution can b retled on selenes must bring to light the evi- tlences of o higher ovder of Inferfor unfmnks thun tho npe.” *Hlowyoun do tall” sald Graee, “But thl:; dogmn you spenk nhout? 1s 1t o reflgion, wnd Ul 101 1s I3 16 better than evangelical stiunity 9 Thera 13 u vast difference between them. treme of eltheris not to be enters tak by wise en, but a rolden mean, in which reflgton and selence ean Joln hands, 18 what we should seck to attuin, * But 1 nppre- hend that I n Jeading you Into deep wa- ters.” **Perhaps,” sald Grace: “but L am golng to ask you & deep question, Do you believe that you e deseetded from a monkey 2 »Oh, Grace, what n strange question! No. I uasure you 1do t botteve sueh o thing to be n pusitive truth, But why dld you ask 2 “ Beeausu it 1 horrible to think of, and I thaught 1t you belleved it yourd just think that I was n deseendant of tie saviio horrible thines and, If such wero your thoughts, 'd bo driven to despair, But now I anvso gind you repndinte sueh n theory, What did you say they eatled thut developing business 9 + M LEvolution.” “Has It anything to do with squace root 9 suld Grace, with-n sly wink, “Are you tokhiz, Graee 27 A phrfish fnugh was the anly answer, Then sho asked bim If ho betleved in afilni- tles, and he tald her nil about chemieal ailin- ftles and finally eame down to the aflinltles that Grace had referance to, 1 bolleyo ns lonirns love oxists between two persons there s an afindty, but when love ceuses to exist the ntlinity comes to an end,” ‘Thds admissfon was very agreoable to Grace, for sho rubbed her 1itfle” ear on his eont-sleeva nnd onece wore got her head sng- lr uestled on hiy breast, white he gaven long c}mzrllmlun onoleenles and the formation of coal, Perlinps she got tired and foll nsloep; how- over, It happencd thls wise: *Often have 1, fu takine "P n lump of conl to voplentsh my tire, fiold 18 1o iy haod like tho gravedigeer duesthe sknll of Yerlck, aud 1 huve sut for hours contemplating its history und eogltatimg wpon the wonderful changes thut lad taken placo I the bygone past of the mysterfous chiemistry of Nutura in her “huge lnboratories, ow "I have traced the Ines of vegetuble formatlon on Its surface, and—naud— * But dldn't wore m:lmllnr Richurd bit ur fire go out whilo you * usked Grace, iks 1ip,~—ho wis somewhat ruf- fled wtGrace polklng fun at him, 5 * Oht eertaluly, my tive went out, or _per- haps the lnmp of coal was hots but I think wmy time s ont also so, If yan don't object, 1 ahutl bid you gond evenbig,” “ What! Richard, aro you mad? are you anery with mo ¥ suld Grace, ns shedrow Ler- self fwny from his verson, Rlehard sald not word bt stood fnmiovable, * deed UM, Fenton,” sald Grace, In a passion, 1t you get wirzry with me for waking suel u barmless question, you had bettey seek the compnny of your fossils, stutled birds, and skoletons, aud Jeave ms aifogether, and—and—"" hut here Griee broko down nnd guve vent to her feellngs In apasslonate tlood of tears, A fow woments elapsed, and Richard ap- rmnclml hers ho drew her gently towards 1, und, witlout stopplig to think what ef- feet the words would have, ho sald in the Kindest manner, *Jly swectest combinution of molecules,” S5t gl Qrace, ns sho strugeled from |Il’= erasp, “low dare you call e amole- culy ? “Pardon me, Grace, Don't let your tempor runaway with your betterself; forget all that has taken placo and: pardon my hosty words, Do you subposy I cun onduro o see {tm miseryblo; forgot nll that has occurred, "ow’ll oty permit e to leave you; our long aequaintanes would —condemn {t, Come, come, Grace, look me in the ifuce and tell mo whether or no wo love cach other. Grace, Iet ms tell you how dear you are Lo me, 'l ol we that you'd be happy " as my wife, Ohl Grace, angwer me by a look, aword, or a klis umtyuu_fwclT nsent to the foudest wish of y life, Shall it ba 8o, or_shall 1 blot out forever that pleture of Paradlse that I have Ho long )b contempluting, Why do you hesitute, Graeet™ Shw permitted bim todrew hercloser, whils tha sudden vutbuest of passion which had so itely made its appernnes hisd been grudoatly givinz way to thepleading of Richard and the passlenale protuptings ot her owan heart, tl ut lustylovking bl b the fuee, wud throwing hor arns nround bis neck, sho ealled him her sweetest, her dearest love, Homn, SHAKSPEARE'S WORKS, AN ADMIRER OF THEM, . To the Jidltor of The CMedgn Tribune. Iovanroy, Mich,, Fel, h—As you have given more than two columns of your valu- nble space to the traducers of Shakspeare, I venture to hope that you will fnsert thess few prragraphs, 1 am moved to writo In nomage to him, I will not say in his defense. Wit I have to say ean bo of no Interest to his readers, but Is aadressed to non-readers, who might bo prejudiced, To peenle whom 1 have heavd make a bold show of disliking Snakspeare, and who were ovidently rathee plensed with themselves for 1f, I have often snld, kindly and confidentially, *Jlush-sh{ do not exposu yourself In that way.” ‘These very people use every day, without knowing It, figures of speceh and short say» ings from Shakspeare, and 1t is a well-known sensation that when you read Shakspearo for the first timo youare surprised to flid how familiar and common-place ara many of Wis expressionss it seemsas though ho Iind quoted trom us, instend of the contrary, Ie has something, uxrwassml In Lerso and moble lmeuage, that sults every event of e ‘and _overy emotion, If quotations from thoT Biblo and v Shukspeare werg to be crased from the Ene gllsh language, it would bo singularly shorn of its graces. By fur the largest part ot theso quatatlons are mado nucuxmuluusl{‘ and nothipg ean bo better proof of theie truth and beauty than thelr uso in this way. Now forhis faulticsness: those who have urged it are to blmme, Vhey give proof of tho servility of their own s, and arouse that petaluiee and hostHity to agsumed pel feetlon which ava inherent to the human mind, Shakspeare's works ure far f faultless, ug they stand; s of reuarive are weary! and his puns un- worthy of him, g coarseness 18 shoekine, but belongs to his age mora than to hlmselt, There are in France sl Lialy thousnids of wen of tho edueateil elugses, whosa convers satfon nmong thomselves 1s garnished with indecencles iy great ns any that aro to he found in’ Shakspeare, and whose tiioughts are but tho maguzine from which they come. In Shukspeare's duys such conversation was universal, and the pi women were hard- cuded to henring them, and to smile at any Ingenious hit, = Some have sald that Shakspenre's char- acters talk as penplanever do talk in reallifo; cortulnly they often do; but lin never mnkes them express nunaturul nor ineomprehensiblo feelings, In lim are none ot the muaes nor painful fllghts to be fouwmd in Brownims, Swinbnrne, and muny other poets, 1l clothes thoughts that are eommon to ull thinking humanlty In nobler Iangunge than 1most of us ean pive then, minl nong of these thoughts are fulse oy stenined, 'Those who wish for trivial Ideas, trivially though charmingly cexpressed, an find them in the lbretto of ** Pluafore,” In Mr, U, 11, Byron's plays, and others of tho smne enllbre, Steh renders will never go far enough to find out how thoronghly simple, natural, and energellc Shakapears “ean he whore 1t 15 needinl, 1 need go no further than the play Ihappen to have read last, * Measure for Mensure,'—the scene between Isabel and Ciandlo hy tha prlson, Tlow graphieally aro tha two charneters depleted! The uprizht, magnanimous, yeb somewhat” cold Taabel sums up her resolution by saying, stuply, < ** Be rendy, Claudio, for your death to-mor* "Ilien Claudfo’s whalo nature comos out In Otli“l. Sllxtl’l,‘l exclammntlon: * Death is a fearful e And Isbel's sudden_change from sorrow to Indignation, when Claudio pleads so base- Iy: 0 you beast! O faithless cownrd! — "ty best thou dlest quickly. 1Ins ever a seene more true to life been written ? At'nlu reqd the qunrrel between Bratus und_ Cusslus, and you wilt love thom both ever nfter; they nre 8o hinman, so seath- ing, Impetuous, and earnest In thelr auger, and so telentin; forgiving, and great-henrtodd in the concinsion, 1u muy not qote— there would be no end, “I'liere wre mnny obseurities, some that defy enllghtenment, i spite of the commentators, who woultt explntin everything But the: obseurltles ure wo gread stumbling-block. In the courss of three centurfes worls so mueh = requlsition mny well have sutfered much from errois, both In the reading of manuserlpt and tho setting up of type, and from ehunges nthe meaning of words, 1t Is not essentlal to the comprehension of n play to do more than read sueh passages thyee or four thmes with nttentlon, to be sure that it Is o fully or obsolete expression, und pags on without tuking oxcontion to it Shukspenre's plots are often slngular, sometimes Ineomplete and fn other ways fm- perfeet, but In tho least perfeet ot hils rhu‘n there are benuties enough to establlsh o man’s revutation. ‘f'o thuse who hive yeb to make his nequaintanee, I would say, begin with the best,—they are an education m themselves for thy 318 uste. OURW OLD BACIIELORS. QAWK 1% THEL DEFENSE, Tv the Eitor of The Chicazo Thibune, CricAGo, Feb, 15—~As T believe I was the first to sny o word In defense of unmarried wouen Lhopo to be allowed space to try to defend my ill-used brethren from the odium cust upon them by one whom I judge never to have seen o true oldl bnehelor, Mrs, Krenmer evidently thinks {lioro arg but two types of the genus bachelor, nud holds tho both up to ridicule and scorn. Sha says there may bo a few of the cheerful kind who aro constant to thelr first love, but ean only name five, including Mr, Plckwiclk (which, by tho way, I8 n new revelation of that worthy gentlaman's eharacter), nnd as- serts that vven that typo only exlsty in the unagihation of some nuthor,” 1 could namo hundreds of o far nobler type, 1 think it s, Krenmer will look down the mlt’w of hlstoxy shwo Wil bo surprised o tind how great n numbér of goud men avoided the bllssful state of wntrlmony and from dthor than purely selfish motlves, Iins Muemilay or \Washington lrving ev been necused of belng supromely selfishs Our observation wonld show us” that tho man who hias the bump of seilishness most fully duvetoped Inviiably marries, Mis, K. mny be ablg to show s that marrlze tends to lessen the degreo of selfishness, but in tho easo of a selflsh man the * 77 18 thery L the first place, itls for *my?” home and Sy ” wife and *my? children that such entor aud after remain I the hapvy state, Mrs, Kreamer also tolls us that men are not given to ideality, Sho surely cannot have rend Mr, Mitehel's charming little rles of o Daenhelor! Betore sale condemnation sha shouli huvo studled welt tho meaning of that Htlo volume. i it ean be found kdvality of tha purest and loftiest kind, 1t 18 a comimon mistuke to suppose that beeauss wen live prosile lives they must needs have no denls o higher conceptlon of things, The truth Is, nhnost all wen possess fdents of truth, justice, goodness, and beauty, and wo aro atlmensured by thess standards, As [ the ease of the extremely scliish wman, the man who Is ineapable of having an Ideal is the first to marry, How long does it taku for un Lgnorant Toon to find o womnn to his Nhhig? ™ About slx wesks on an avernge, , tho mauy who possess these high staml- 5 ure the ones who exn mako the nieo dls- tinetlons, and not the few who lnelk them, Nelthor do 1Tthink 1t true that men's ldeq nra 50 eastly met and fdel, or that so few men remnli tro to thole klhor conceptions, Lu horvemarks § spe Mrs, K. attelbutes all the viees to th buehiolors in suely o sweeps gz manier that Lam ewrlous to kiow If slis Lhinks all tho murrled men freo from the sins aho luys ut tho door of the helpless singly men, I8 the man who nover hul nn ddeal bottyr than thoono who has falled to meot s lll\-lnlli".' She would hnve us go back to tho Spartans to learn the teuo estbmation In winch men nro to bo held, and ends her vonufrks with the assertion that the bachelor leads a warth- Tess, seltish. I, und dles unpltled and un- sung, L shonld hate to think ‘that soclety 13 us [znorant or as hand-hearted s she would have ts bellove, Ithink e ideal charity will lond us to find that noman who seus and does his daty in the sphuere In which he Is placed 1s no morg denyig the wisdom of God than s the wnn who wilifull er crentes anothier sphore of whnt o ealls * duty,” und contentedly set- tesalown in it In viewii tha many Indlsereot and un- happy warrlages, we should be wlling to sten to tho wise words of that wise ninn Paul, where ho says: * e that giveth her in marriagze doeth well; but he that glveth her not in umrrlugmluullx better,” GAWE, THE YANKEE SOITOOLMAS- TER. A WINTER IDYL OF “*MILLER'S L On Mitlor"s ¥ & farm-house stood; o lowland structurebullt of wood; whose clap- bosrds weather-worn and gray, were falling into slow decay; whose mossy wooden laue- troughs swung from rusty lrons rudely hung; whose enrling shingles here amd thero betrayed the need of good repair; whose anelent ehbmuey eapped with stone with lichens partly uvergrown, nbove the sazeing roof looked down wpon the splres of Brandon town, An ol gray bam was bullt near by, with heavy givihis and seaffolds bigh, and solld sills and mnssive beams, nind through the cracks and opan seams tho slanbing sinshing used (o play In golden gleams upon the hay, where oft, with many o morry shont, the children Jumped and plaged about at hido and seek, or looked with enre for hidden nests ln corners there. Where oft at morn they used to hear the eackling nen and chan. tleleer, whore, by the broad floor *neath the mows, were eribs and stanchlons for tho cows, nud strong plunk stalls where horses stood 1o eat thelr Iy from racks of wood, and, in a corner stowed away, o fauning-mill and old red steigh. Where jolly farm- boys husked at night the golden corn by canale-light, and hung their lanterns by the by on piteliforks thrust into the ey, where, sheltered from the antuma rajy, Wit thune dering flalis they threshed the' grain, Lach year the hom of hor hres wns henrd ambd the apple treo, the 1ilaes bloowed, the Jocusts Jair with thele sweet fragrance filled the alrs thestubble tlelds wers plowed und sown; the \\'IY'XII rain fell; tho bright sun shone; the robins sang: the green griss Rrow$ the Toses blossomed. I thy dews the tull ‘redd hollyhoek ones more blooned I)rlnxhllg by the farm-house door; tho sun- Hlower bent it mum[)" lead s the eattle ta tho pasture fed, tho erickets nhlnnud n meadows near, sounds were waftod to e ear oer waving tlefds of tngseted corn, of clnttering seythe and dlnner horn, The reapers vesped their gotden she 3 the swullows left the ( tecowd en he apples bt theautumn grew ripe and metlow on the tr the leaves: were swept nbout the i fields wero brown, the wootlands b snow-flakes tell; tho alr grow chill§ the gleizh-bells vang on ** Miller's 1LY 4 Thes wint sky was overceast, the snow and sleet wero falling fast, 1'was Christimas eve; the alr was ool tho clibdren hiwrried home from sehooly with Inuehter loud nd outeries stirii! they reached the farn-housa, ou tha hilly they eame ncross the kitehen floor, nor stopped to shut thy L‘“"T door, nil strivime first_the news to tell, exelafmed, in voneert, with™a yell: **"L'he teacher’s comin? heve to stay; he's up the roud s little way 5 he stopued to tall with Susan Stow, an' w¢ ran homo to Jub you kKnow,” The mothor stopped lier spinning-wheel, and put away her creaking reel, swept up thu tusty hearth with eare, rolled down her steeves nnd braghed her hair, smoothed out her rumpled ulm'llmm rown, wd in her roeking-chaly sut downy than, stelving hard mlm‘:k her best, sho ealmly waited for lier ruest, ler ruddy, round, and fleshy face was ortdered by n ocup of lnce; hor noso wiy nearly hid from view by her plump cheeky of healthy hne; her ey o bright, hor fidr Wiy xhlu{, sho had a ouble ching her husbund’s arms, when both embraced, conld bavely clrenmseribe her waist, Of ull targs women uino i ten witl most admlre the [ittle men, and Jittle men—why none may tell—will love lurge wonten qulty as well. ‘Choy woo, they wed, tho mi lhll';‘)llgh Iife 18 qulte o'ershadowed by tho wife, Soon, parting from hls rustie flame, the tardy o schoolinaster came, 1lls oyes wero lue, his fentures fair, his chin o'ergrown with downy halrs bebind his ears his loeks of brown were smoothly brushed pnd plas- tered down bis bony Himbs wers large nnd lIong: his well-traliiesl ntseles firm and strowgs; the tadi, stout boys that yeprs before bl thrown their teachers throtgh the door his rod remuded with dlsmay, and seldon dared to disoboy, Tho lde and hope of Hubbardton was tall Lyenrgus Littlefohn, who hud, bl fellow-townsmen said: ©A Reap o larnln’ in his head,” (Three terms in Middtebury Cotlege had glven him iy Hheap of knowledee,, 1le often uswd to sit listween thefair young glrls of sweet sisteen eud kindly help thony *ato thelr sums.” ‘Thiey Drought him froftund sugnr phinss they had thelt givihoad hopes wnl tearsy hls words wero mnsic In thelr earas eaeh sinile he gavo them hd n charms eneht frown wonld (I thes with nlsrn. What envious looks at Susun Stow, his fuvorit seholr, they would th Iler eyes and halr were dark .ns night, her skin wis soft, nwd smooth, and whites o penchelike bloum her elieeks overspread; lier 1lps ke eherrles, vino and red, What won- der e coulid not coneeal tho l{lml. BWeGE thelllhe used to feel through all” his palpl- tatlng framn when to his desk sho coyly eame and, looklng up with eyes of lovo, Itk some sly, thuld (fitlo doye, would softly nsk him to esponul somo knotty problem sho had found 2 What being In the world below hult ng sweesns Susan Stow ? 1ler aturyt, his fuce 1y burn, and, when he teled to sateulato some Tons, havd ¢ sum ** upon her slate, the lrures daneed before his 3!:th Ike little gobitny, gny snd white, and, when at night, with cheorful fnee, he sturted for his bourding place, what wonder that ho enme 50 slow In walkine home with Susan Slow? The_womun erossed the kitehen floor to meet Lyeargus w6 the dovor, and, with o seruttnizing starer sho sald: " Walke in an? tuko w ehaly, s’ bo to foma while YOil 0o l}urc."()omc. Busby, take his things, my dent, Forth from Wiy corner, by tho fire, tho hins- buad cine ot her destre, THs heml was bad), save hieve md there, stray littlo tufts of griz zley halr; higshouldersstooped, his form wa thin, hly Tenees were bent, his toes turned ing he wore o long blue lannel froek, gray trousers, und o suthn slocks o cotton colinr, tall_atd qtieer, was radoly’ rampled vound eneh ears hls face wus mild, hiv smllo was binnd, us forth he ]m! his ponderons hand, and salils L think I see you well, I hopo vow'll stuy n leetlo spells wo'ro plabn folks iero Ld luve you know, and don’t go ln for pride nor show.” ‘Uhen, after stepplyg on the eat, ho tonk the tencher’ cont and liats ho hung them on o rusty nabl, and, pleking u}) hls milking patl, he slowly shuflled out of doors and went to do the evening ehores, Closo by the firellaht's eheerful ginre Ly- cenrgus drew Lhe easy-chnie, 'Fhe sm'm‘f(’ steam of ehlekens slain cume from the Wil bot an tho erane, The Lettle's merry smui e heavds npon the learth the gray eal purred: while, by tha ehlmmvy-corner s, the house dog dozed upon o rig, - Along the chimney-piece of woad an fdle row of fint Trons stood, two enndlestleks in vrizht army, o paur of suuffers and o tray, Fho tme-worn aloek tleked slowly ong Wstruels the hours forover gone, *Forever wone,” it svemed to say,—* llorover gono,” from day 1o day, fn its tall caso of sombro fite,~ Twas (ifty yeurs sinco It wus now, Ietween tho whidows, small and high, the Jooking- kinss wis hung, near bys w brazen bird with wiizs outsirend, perelied on tho seroll-work overhead; beneath, o shelf, tho common howe of family Hibte, brush, awd comb; ubove, from fron hooks, wero hung long Trames, with u{mlns thicily strung, sd, fised upon the wall to_dry, wore wicaths of pittupkin kent for pie, Faorth from the buttry, ta the fire, camo Aunt Bebeeen Melntyre, a sallow spluster, somewhat old, whose inellow nge was soldom told s her hinr was 'y her nose was thin, it neurly tonehed hor toothless ehin, Litu's wenry work and eonstant eare had worn o foee ihat ance waa talr, Each Sabbuth morn, from snrhu{ to spring, within tlio eholp she wsed 1o shag, In ancient bonuat, elonk, and gowi, the oldest relies in the town; beslde tho chorlster she stood, and ulways didd the best she coutd, and, whila with” tuning-tork he ledy sho murked his wovements with hor, heud, her nusal voieo n;mx.y sharp und queer sbove the deep-tonyd viol near, She took the blacke pat from the crane, re- moved tho kettly trom the chaln,: mud mwdo tho tea and ehlcken-brotl, drew out the table, spremd tho eloths then, from the table, bright ’l“l“l now, brought the'best ehlna edsed with e, 'I'ho chores wera done, the feast wnasnrendd ; all took thelr sents aiul grico was sakd, 'They ato the savory ehicken stuw, 8o Juley and so well cooked “throughs before “them, rieh rouid dumplings swui, on stemning plate: with coll hoiled haw, with fueathory blse wari and ght, with curnnt fnmand hon white nud erowning all n good supply of yel- low, mealy pumpkineplo. Whers™ such o bounteous feast is nmlul‘wlm would not tencl and “bourd around 7 "Fho supper done, the futher took from off its shelf, thy s Bouk, und real of Ono who stilted the sen_ong nlnnu{ night In Gnlllosy then, knoellng down bhotore his chair, he nsked the heavenly Shepherd’s enre, Soon from tho grovp, With drowsy heads, thuehlldren sturted for theiv beds; took ofd tho Hiutlo shoes they wore, uiid lutc them en the Kltehen o thon, bidding alla fond oo Ligh witn pattering feet, thoy passed from sight. . Dear Httle feet, how soon they stray from tho old furm-house fur awuy: how seon thoy leave the fumlly fold to wilk the shin- Ing’streets of gokd, whers every hope fs real s sures where every heart skiud und pure: avery dream 19 bright and falr,~01 v we meot our loved ones there! o farmor left his cozy seat, with clatter- g slinrurs on his feef, went to tho cellar where he drew.n muz of clder, sweet il new, and from his brond bins brought the bt and tlpest apples for his guest, "U'hen, by the warn fire's ruddy light, they lingered until Inte at nignt, strango legends told, aud tales that mado them all eol norvous nid afraid, Lt ** Aunt Robecea watehed In vain the curling smoke above the erane; she nodded, dozed, began to snore, she dropped her knit- Uneon the floor, nwoke, her oyellds heavipr grow, arose aod sllently withdrew, * Along tha ereaking sinirs she crept, to tho lone climmber where she slept, anad eloso the window-curtaing drew, to screen herselt from outward view. She stopped the key- holgof the door, sho set tho candle on tho floor, lnoked neath the valanee,—half afraid to lud nman in ambuscnde; thon sltting dowi, nsfdo with eare she Inid her garments on s chuir, slipped on hee ghiostly roho of white, took oll lior shaes, blew out the light, the; i the darkness, from hor hend red moved ber whr and went to bed, curled up, l\\'nh'uhllly sobs and slghs, and shivering shut ier drowsy Poor slugle soulawho sleep nlone, the night wind hath a dismal tone Lo your lone ears,— you start with fenr ut avery midnight sound out heat, when Info nt nleht with weary heads you ereep Into your lonely beds, 'I'he nlghts seem fong, your lips turiy blue, your feet graw cold,—you know thoy dol Sho slept at Inst; she heard oneo more the ripple break upon the shores again she sab, upon the strand, nnd some one clugped her fair young hand, and words were whispered incher ear that tong ago sho loved 1o hear, and, starting up, shy eried In gleo: “I knew you wonld comelback to me.” She woke, Alas! no love was there, Ifer thin arms claspedd the vneant air, "'was but o dream, She Jived alone. ~Without she heard tho night winl moan, whils on the window-panes thesnow wns wlldly beating, From below the smathered sound of voices eawe when stlil with Busby's soelal dame, Tholr guest Bab by the fadinge five und watehed s fleeting e expire while she_listencd, but no word they utteved could beclearly heard; but spon o recollectlon cnne that “sent » shudder througl hor frame,—the sausage to ho fried at wor, the breakfust tnble to adord, was In thobedroom where thelr cuest wounld soon hetnko bhnself to rest, The elock struelc 10, xflh(i ’r;omy sald, “T'Il get it ere he goes to o, *Ilic spara bed stood within a room ns ehill and humid ns n tomb; "twas never aired, “Lwis rolilom wept: it its damp cornery splders erepty they bulls theirbridges through the nir, and no rudo broom distarbed then thero, “Tha raly, thet fell on roof decnyed dripped throngli the ehinks that time hnd made, and on the whitewashed walls ran down I wondrous freseoes tinged with brown; the window-panes, with ftost o'er- sprend, were warmer than t! iey bed, Cold was tho matting on'the floor; cold blew tho 70 beneatlt the door; cold wera tho zhi-hucked ehinlrs of wood, cold was the oaken stand that stood on xnlmlllug legs that looked ns chill as lone, bare pines on somo Dleak bill; high rose that bed o'er things be- liko some tult feeberg capped with snow, vety highly honored guest, when bed- thpe came, Tetived to “rest, Within Its Inrge and moldy press iung Mrs, DBusbys hest silk dress; her Sunday bonuet, shaes, and shawl, on rusty nalis against tho waull, l)i‘ Alr, usby’s suit of blue, that ut his wedding had been new, IHere on o peg liis best eruvat repnsed within hisold fur ity here, shut from slght of human eyes, were rows of minco and apple ples, with rolls of sausage and head-cheese,stored on the shelves und lott to freeze, L'ram out her cot the mniden eropt, slipped on her shoes, and softly stepped slong tho hall and through the gloom unill shie reached tho chilly room, Unseen, she crossed the fey floor, nuheard unlocked the eloset-door, snatehed from the shelf, in a firm hokd, a bag of sangnge, stiff and cold, then, turning quick- 1y, 8ol o bent o sudden, snfe, and surs retrent, Too Inte! - n light glm\mu(l on_ tho wail, and sounds of foatsieps filled the hall, then to tho room entne boldiy on the stalwort form of Littlejolml Sho backward stepped, lllmlllsfi,(fd I‘Iglmst, then closed the door and el nst, With nlm(lerlnfi tedth and trembling framo across the floor Lyeurgus came, o plneed the candio In his hand upon_tho suindling oaken stund, “Then elosed the door, and, with afrown, within s cold chalr settled down, Ile threw his bootg upon the floor, and, ris- ing, tried the eloset-door; but Aunt Rebeeen, Inaffright, elung to tha lateh with all her might, " 'To look within Lyeurgus fulled, ho turned nway and thought it nulled] “Then, lmlllm: down the suowy spread, ho pn£ his warm Dricle in the bed, tovk oft his elothes and slipped between tho stieets of lee, 50 white and clean, blew out the light and, with n snecze, close to his chin ho brought his knecs, honeath the elothes ho drew his nose, and tried, In valn, to find re- posus while * Aunt Iebecea,” from tho watll, tovk down the Sundny gown nud shawl, she wrappeit them round hor {r ng form, and blushed, to keep hier visage wari. ‘I'ho paper curtuing, loosely hung upon the windows, rustiiye swung, while through each qulverlng, narrow frame of frost panes o dlin lzht came that mado the furnl- wure appenr llke dusky fantowms umuchlnfi near, L{uur uflistenca to the storm an hugzed his bri® to keop him warm, but colder grow tho humid bed, the clothes con- gealed nbout his head s to fecl at enso in vain he trled; he tossed and turned from side to side: each thme he moved, boneath his welght_tho bedstead creaked Sike some farm- wne. 1108 brick grew cold, he could not sleep, nostrango sensation seemed to ereep upon hbm, whilo neross the floor he closely witehed the closet-door, Was ho but dreaming? Nol his eyes be- lield, with wonder and surprise, what man had “never seen before,—thore was amoves mentat the door, It slowly turned and to his sight eane, through the dim, uncertain llght, 1 _hideons hand, that in its clusp some awful object seemed to grasp, a crouching form, with frighttul head, scemed slowly coming townrds tho bod, 116 heard tho rusty hingzes ereals, ho couldd not stir, ho could not si»mk, o conlit not turn his hiead nway, ho shut his eyes and tried to pray; upon his Drow of pijlid hue the cold swent stood ke drops of dow; at last ho shrieked, ntond nnd smlll.—flm dvor swung back and all was still, That midnlght ery, from room to room, re- sounded loudly through the glaom, ‘The farmer and his wife at rest, within their warin und cozy nest, awoko and uprmui. In strange attire, forth_from their bed loud shouting,~*firel” But, finding neithor smoke nor tlame, soon slumblll\siun the stalrs they eame, tn cotton bedqullts qualntly dressed, thoy heard a deep groun from tholr ruest, and,” full of wonder and alfright, pushiéd in the door and struck & Hght. Doep down within tho fenthor bed Lycur- gy hwd withdeswn his head, and, out of slght, Iny quaking llmu-, with throbin breast and bristling halr, They questiones him, but o was still ho shook as 1t ha had n cehill, the courngo was “comploetely gone from tall Lyeurgas LittieJohn, What hitman langunge can express, tho modest mafden's diro dlstress while standing st behind _hor sereen, o s spoctator of ¢he seene? What pen penell can portriy hor mute despair and deep dismny? Awhils gho stood, and through the door she peeped neross tho bed-roow floors thewny wos clear, and ko a vise she grasped the sausage, cold a8 lee, wrnuir from iho closet mud from sighe she glided [ke a gleam of light, nway without o lool er ward, sho flew llio an wltrighted bivd ; without s poment of dolay, the mystery eleared ILsclf iy ! . Agahy tho snow tx(. ms on the ground, agaln the slelzh-bolls gayly sonnd, agnln on “ Miller's I wo hear'the shouts “of chil- dren lowd and elenry but In the barn-i3 heard na wore the tiapplng tlall upon the floor, Tho house Is down, s lnates gone, and tall Ly~ enrpus Llltlc‘{nlm Is now aii_old wan, worn with enre, with stooptng formand stlyerhalr, 1o murrfed dark-eyed Susan Bfow, and they WEro huppy, YOars wgo, When, in thio merry winter-time, thelrchil- dren's ehlidren ronid bim cliinb, ho tells theut of his foarful fright, on that fe distant winter nhiht' and, attor they are put to bed, when bf’lm Tivo with nodding hggd ho' sith and sinks to slumbers deop, and gunkes and shlyers In his sleop, alns! he 13 but dreaming still of that spare bed on *“Miller’s IILY Ruaexs J, THE RIGIT, 178 B8LOW I¥* NOT DOUNTHUS, TIIUMPH, Tu the Editor af The Chicago Tribune. Curcaao, Feb, 4,—W,, In o recont nume bor of ''ie Ilome, took n clicerful view of things. It would appear from his words that tho porcoption of right nnd the cstablishment of it were nlnost sim- ultancous, tho one following directly upon the othor, 1In tha interval of tima that elapsed inovery lustance that he eltes be- tween the awakening of consclence and the domluant action of consclence there is very nearly i refutation of Lls wholo Argument, A dlstinetion ought to bo made Hkewlse be- tweon what 1s-¢elled o convictlon of right aml the mere instinet of self-preservation, o dusire to better gue's self, or aresolve toes- da eapo thraldom or porsecution, A large pe! centago of the colonlsts who settled this country enmo horo from the above” motive : with no large atm nflend of them; new sol and plenty of 1L was an entlding prospect] muny leagues of wator belweon them and natlon they did not like gave a now zeat to existen When the question of a rovoli. Llonary war wrose, ot nrmed resistanes and independence, there wore ninong | these same colonlsls several clusses of peoplo natural- opposed to afleh Iind o pereeption) of yight In tho malter, nnd whoss only exertion wns. fo ap- hose tho few whio hid; these wore the Torle 00 xlrnnixly fmbued ns yot with thelr Bnr penn natlons to break with their former af) ations: the non-resistants, nuberhye all the Quakors; tho Dutoh, toe sordid o run any risks; tho Roman Cnllmllnn, ta whom nll ravolt agoniust anthority swd speculations upon treedom, elther of ind or body, was heresy; the uritans, too much absorhed by rellglous excrelses and self-comdolenoe to b onthustastie In public afales; alld the owt- lylmf mnss of fortune-scekers, adventurers, good-for-naughts, emlgrants, ote, whao swelled the communlty,” We all know what i amount of eloquetice, argiment, persun- slon, warning, dentneintion, wore needed to finally fire this incrt wnsy, With dap-pow- der conselences, into any sense of the sltun- tion or any show of manly netlon, I'atrick Henry, Jolin Adams, "Thomas Patie, and the rest of the bravo ones almost exhausted themselyes In the effort, anavalling untll the 1ast moment; a large litersture sprang from the necessity of rousing the people, and yot after all, when the war wns reluetantly com- menced, “ Howo mavched throngh tilles of non-resistants,” as John Adams Indignantly relates in bis Jetters, S to an easy conruest of Philadelphia, wherethe Quakers, obullent 1o their instinet of hospltality, enterialned him woll.” The smne_{hing was repeated In the Into Rebelllon, It was a prievously long timo befora ** it 1s vight toabolish humin slavery went all along the Unlon soldlers' line, That did not come until the fag end of the War; undll there had been martyrs, North and South, In the anti-slavery cunyg; until Wiltlam Lloyd Gurrison had woll nighl spent Lis Nfe fn vabn, and the abused and downs trodden colored race were ready, like Job, to eurse God and die; and, cven then, 1t was 1ot n unanhnous sentiment fn the ranks, Our recentulefented candiduts for the Prosi- deney was not_nlone in his views, Tha Lmaneipation Proclamution came_us o last resort, sl many of thoso who took part in the War were only ton anxious to_ disclnin, ublicly atd brlvmc]?’, any Intentlon of in- erferiig with thy institution of stavery. 1t I8 right to be generous to a fallen foe,” i3 applied In o way by V. that gives evidenco that his_perception of right 1 not quite nc- curate, for, In the *fallen foe” Jeff Davis was i traltor 8o binck that his pardon was nn {nsult to uvcr{ netty malefactor and ana- teur murderer that his been put to denth in tho annaly of history, The right will prob- ably triumph eventinlly, i€ ho does not dia meanwhile, In hig belng tried once more by the United States Government for oven n higher order of crine than that which dis- tinguished him before, . That 1t 1a right to bo charltablg”” does not fmpress itself vividly upon the public mind until society, reting upon tho Bible deelnra- tion that * unto every one who hath shall by given, and he shull have abundauce: but from him that hath not shall bo taken awny aven that which hie hath,” has hinpoverlshed its menibers and rendered them thoroughly wretehed 3 and then to savo ftself in the oyes of the world and to avoid the evils incldent to unallevinted pauperism, founds eharitablo inatltutions and bonsts of {ts bencvoluneound lnmano senthments, 1t would be right, in the pure sense, to avold the necessity of usy- l‘l‘l s, 9!\:1 lhospitals, and homes, ** A'stltel in me,” ete, 5 ** It 13 right,” W, continues, *to allow each person o liborty of cousclence in matters of u religious charneter; and the Stato and tho Natlonal Constitution forever publisit thut unqguestioned privilege.”” Sheer abstraction thiss there 18 virtually no lHberty to think for one's self in religlous matteps, tnless one Is disposed to think In tho orthadox way; hardly then, for o man's choleo of achurch and o faith §s never the right one, nnd his frionds and = well-wighers, sl per- haps of ditferent denominations, eannot but try to get him out of that and Into un- other possessed of greator eflicacy for sulva- tlony and if he does not deem 1t essentlnl to go to chureh at all, he will sooner or later wish thot anothier America cquld be discov- ered, 03 o rolu‘p‘;u for tho persecuted for uplnlou‘ls sake, Stolelsm 18 a8 much needed now as it ever was In anclent thnes, for one's power of ondurance will bu tested to tho ut- most 1 this modern soclety, so keenly nlive to the right, “1t ls right to teach chlldren good princi- ples and correct habits of thought; and a wholo army of workers have como to tho front in the shape of Sunday-shools, Young Men’sChivistinn Associntlons, evenlngschools, tlny schiovls, and schools for mechaiienl in- struction. These are nll vigorously and ably conducted by s brave, honorable, and pure- milded o class of mon and women a8 ever the world kuew.” Vigorously conducted, yes, for overy child is a grent gain to the cliurch; but liow nhl{' conducted, so far ns tenching correct hnbits of thought 1s con- cerned, 18w guestion, Any parent of ad- vanced thought will have™ work enough o do in reconstructing his children’s educatlon after they quit thoe Sunday or day school in weeding out the theology of the one—which stlll says, figuratively, to its Gallleo's, the world does not mpve—and the superlicinlity of tho other, Ediieationnl reforn §s ono of the most tmportant OIIL‘SGIL present, and all of the old methods are beitg discarded ono by one. Thero are g muny pretenders to be found nimong tho. ranks of tenchérs as among ph[)‘s(chum. and that Is saylng n good deal. ‘'ho education of the young ls largely intrusted ton lot of shilly- shally young gfrls who never did an hour's solid thinkinge In thelr Ifves, and with neithor a well-disciplined mind nor eharacter, 1., ko others of the satisfied class, In« velghs nzalust * those who tear dowi und never build ap'; bult who really do this? Iconuclnsts nre very rare; did Luther tear down withont building up? Did Garrison, dlilany reformer, any thinker, and sclen- st? Al yet afl of theso have found o world of fault with tho exlsting arder of things, In fact, to tear down anything wor- thy of destruetion Is In Itselt bullding up, 1f the new kdeas directly formed ure regurded ag o tangibls good. To do awny with any discord I3 to vesolvo things Into harmony, and this 18 more positlve than the wn- resolved discord, ulthough not so harsh- nynmmlucnt. 1t 13 danwerous to nllow any evil to llves it s dnniwmus to foster 1ty growth by mlvmtluu; wlittle nelivo destrue- ton Is worth all the passiye faith that right will eventually triumph, Whilo we are wilt- Ing_ sonthnenially with upturned eyes, and reclting pussages of poetry bearing upon this nolut, hundreds and thousands of peoploars registaneo who slowl dyine from the_slekness of hope de- The "lefl DE(EC“VE n 'Ul' Famllyolflffl“ l ferved, “Ihe question, Does rlght treiumph in i e ik the \\I'orhl. nrnduex wrong telumph? uL' ity | _8o1d by dealera everywhere, Send for & many t huan sonl, and most of us hold to the former bullet more as the lust despairing olfort ot falth thanas a certainty from ho iny seen the right triwinph In ot own exp rlence aml thut of athers, etter than tho hope that 1t witl s thodetermination that the right shall telwinph simply beenuso anything dess than that 38 o disgraco to human belngs, ~certaluly to clvilized ‘;.'iw“ n I, Scorr. , MISCELLANTEOUS. TAKES THIE CAK] T (he Lditar of The Chicaga Tribune, MIravAUREE, Wis, Feb. 15~I shonld be happy to know it those love-sick girls intend to drive mo frantic with their everlasting singing? ‘There It goes ngain: “Dotter got married than dlo an old maid,” Asit L didn’t know that, and think so too, at theirnge. £ conquered all that weak- ness l(;m: ngo, and, though spitetul peoplo did say *twas beenuso I couldn’t find any mon who would marry me, it has always Leen my private oplulon that had I given then one-tenthh of the nwuure{wmunc the brazen wamen who got them did they would all have bean at my foet begging for the honor of my hand “and heart; for, it 1 do suy i, I wis hundsome; that runs In the fundly; and, of course, I wouldn't bo the ouly excopllon to a genoral rule,—notif 1 know myselt! 4 my mind, 'm o goodelooklng woman espeelully with w Hitle sklliful g up ¥ when ocension retlulmn.— by the veay, 1 understand dolng, likoe not 50 very old,—only 45 (though, of course, thut extra five years ™ concerns no one but myself), amd searculy o gray balr in mz' head, thunks to my hulr restorative, Dh! thit vadonting L zotb yestorday, If 1 could find tho vllilan it camejirom I'd mako him suffer, but perhaps it * hor,' come to think of #t1 1’5 just liko soma calons fe- malod Nomatter what the sex, though, Il i make the person repent it 1L 1 could get liold of the ond that ent it **With my false teeth out, aitd my face in n pout, my spec- tacles on my nose, and back hair luid otf In reposo; with hooks, papers, and fnkstand seattered nbout fn iy efforts to_be literary, Ifairly mako you' shout,”—do I? 1 should eujoy muking you shout for some otler reas sot, you' reneande rhymls) nnybody gzuess low 1 loo) teilly, If miTles have eome ilove Timust compel sone we before nuother Valentiyg: Tet meseel Wonder how to bo Mrs. instend of * Misy, you know”: to bo thelo man, and doting mothor of Jiy| men Rnd women ? Woll, iy, By v \\!u-l how g1g to N 1 Writey mm‘)h!? "““‘li ) * Inarg t woup A o I\"'i Ol ggg Wit o'y oz |0 4 o § 00y Into yet,—** Whily thero's |ife thayw, ¢ 1o —nnd, bless mal there's old All!.l‘ia'rfx‘r()"‘ o whinwer ngaln, What it he has ) ¥ burfed 4, A wives alrendy, and I8 deaf, halq, Al gt —he 18 e, iid, When n woinm' gy o Lo marry for love, tha hest thiye to 1] 10 ) marry Tor moness thouul, to fo o 9 should make on”exeellent 'wif e L mathoer,—there’s no doubt fy Iy ], Hep. that,—and 1f T ean make him sk o 4 of st away, mrls| W Betterkoet maggog Well, dic nn olil maid” I Mr. Switly ,,,,[.'ha; loses GALE l"ul?:,",f_') T iy CHANGE FINGERS | A Docldedly Novel Sargieal e .mont Which Two Men I}ndc'r:;:ll,,; Money. Sl mlwl,t"l"g Merata, ; esterdny’ n rather sensatlons renched the Herald regarding ;:ll;:‘?fi“ treatment on the partof o n!shlL'Illl)h)’fllnI ¥ ‘Tho story, brictly relited, was that (he n?;l of medleing had engagud wit) nmuu;‘ who hiul, lost n couplo of finger 7 transplant two healthy membory \,mq the stumps, A cortaln amount of mumfl was agreed upon for verforming ({m surgleal fuat, nnd then (he Physlehin—gg tha story wont—bargained with R eouple of Uorman mon to sacritico ench u tnger, ang pald them 820 npicca‘tor the malining, Ty, talo nppenrs ke an aneedote of to)) oy, tlimensions to belleve, but as the name of th surgcon was given as Dr., J. . Bauton, ay na that gentleman restdes at the corner o Woodland and Willson AVCUNCS, & teporty traveled out to investlzate the affalr, e, DBanton was found at his office, and 1o In guiries from tho visitor madeo the foll oy nteresting statemont HD“W * For some years L have made the syl lott of Ingrafting one of study, nnd so eoni leat wns 1that it could be performed that o I Weduesday morntng £ determined to maky tha venture, Frank and Aumist Pilor, aza respeetlvely 5 aud 23, for nconsiderable 5y of money weroe prevailed urmn 10 subjet themselves to the ordeal, nnd at g d'clock myself and asslatant amontate) the Iittle finger through the shaft of fty second phalanges of the right hand of Augnst and thoe nualogous finger on.the pr. son of Frank, engraftlsg tho part amputatel {rom one person to that of the other, putting four sutures in ench. The fingers wen dressed, and the men departed with striot in Junctions to sny nnthmsrl about tho matter, and to return on Thursd nf' morning to hasg thely fingers redressed. During tho opers tlon rfiulm an amusing aecldent took place, The little finger of Mr. Frank Filer hai been muputated, wrapped In a towel, and r)m:ed on tho steam heater, M()' assistant, in oolking for' something to wive theblood from hils hands, took the towel, not notlein tbs finger. When I eama to look for the finger after the ono on_the hand of Ausmist e been amputated, for the purposo of placing 1t on his stump, I found it gone, Int, aftet an anxlous search of a fow minutes, I hap runcll to glanco In the slop-bucket, and raw t floating on the surfaee, It was quickly rescied, pinced on the hand, and bandazed, 1o entire operntlon was performed In Iess than an hour without tha use of anes thotics or of stimulants. Notwithstanding my oxpressed wish, the men went dows street, exposing theinsclves to the rain and dampness, and at overy opportunity told th story of the wonderful experiment, contrary to m{ injunctions, desiring to make nothizg public until the experiment was proven by yonu the possibility of a donbt, “Tyonty-four Nours luter tho men turned and had their fingers redressed, whiet were found nnvery promising condition, nmwlulsmndlm{' the exposure that the me had subjected them to, There was o unloy of theparts and n partial clreulation, givinza normal urmnmucu to the finger ns 1nr dowa ag the nuil, ‘I'he contimiity sevmed rerlecl. and one of tho men sald that le had seos. tion In the member. 1 propose to wateh ta frmu:;'md glve them my most enreful alten 100, —— AT LAST, For The Chicago Tribune. 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